Madonna's Confessions II debut at #1 on Billboard 200 with 134k units

[TaylorSwift 162,021]

Madonna earns her 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her new studio album, CONFESSIONS II, debuts atop the list dated July 18. With the arrival, the Queen of Pop gets her first No. 1 album of the 2020s and becomes the first act with a No. 1 album in the 2020s to have also topped the chart in three other decades.

Further, Madonna becomes only the fourth act to have achieved at least 10 No. 1s each on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. On the latter, she has 12 leaders.

CONFESSIONS II launches with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 9, according to Luminate. That marks the largest week for a dance album this year. It also scores Madonna her best week, by units, since the Billboard 200 transitioned to an equivalent album units-ranked list in December 2014. CONFESSIONS II additionally yields Madonna’s biggest streaming week ever for an album, and her largest pure album sales week in more than a decade.

Of CONFESSIONS II’s 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 114,000 (Madonna’s best sales week since 2012 ), streaming equivalent album units comprise 19,000 (equaling 20.1 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, Madonna’s largest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 32 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

CONFESSIONS II was initially widely released as both a 12-track and 16-track album.

The project’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 15 vinyl variants, four CD editions, one cassette and six digital download editions.

 

 Of the album’s opening-week sales, vinyl purchases comprised 59,000 — Madonna’s biggest week on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991).

Edited Sunday at 07:14 PM by TaylorSwift

[Ricardo 8,109]

so deserved 

[mamo 20,404]

ok but the question is: is it for you? is it for them? 

[onTheBrink 1,120]

Should have been more quite honestly, but glad she's getting the recognition she deserves

[Duella Dvil 11,522]

EVERYBODY GET UP AND DANCE

[Anderson123 42,589]

11 minutes ago, mamo said:

ok but the question is: is it for you? is it for them? 

I've got something I wanna talk about. 

[4th Time Around 5,043]

Madonna collecting #1 albums like infinity stones

[Anderson123 42,589]

She was projected to do 120k ish so 134k is amazing and great numbers for her in 2026. Just the title CONFESSIONS alone had to create hype for listeners and fans of the first one to be interested in this because it seemed that with Rebel Heart and Madame X they had moved on from her.

[JolP24601 83]

Don't just stand there, let's get to it

Get your 10th Number One on the Billboard 200, there's nothing to it

Vogue!

 

(I'm so happy for Madonna!)

[Bronco 24,281]

4 minutes ago, Anderson123 said:

She was projected to do 120k ish so 134k is amazing and great numbers for her in 2026. Just the title CONFESSIONS alone had to create hype for listeners and fans of the first one to be interested in this because it seemed that with Rebel Heart and Madame X they had moved on from her.

The 120k was the midweek projections.

The initial projection was 110k.

 

[southpaw773 4,364]

134k seems so low with everyone I know digging it, but good for Madge!

Edited Sunday at 07:53 PM by southpaw773

[Elderflower 553]

Happy for her! Living legend. The longevity this woman has 

[Awakened M 3,219]

Congratulations! I love this album!

[ThisGuyTony 34,692]

Hopefully more longevity than Rebel Bore and Madame Skip

[Mister Gaga 23,188]

And it outsold rebel heart and madame x. Congrats queen  fantastic album